Christopher Leger

International trade agreements rarely make front page news, and even then only when the agreements are signed, binding the signatory countries to them. Because of this, the standard practice for negotiating these trade agreements is extraordinarily opaque due to press disinterest and the lack of the same open-government laws that many nations have regulating how [...]

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Time Warner recently announced expanding their ridiculously low bandwidth caps to additional markets. Let me be clear, this has nothing to do with infrastructure costs, quality of service, or even additional revenue generation. It is solely about drawing a lime in the sand over what (HD video?) they do not want customers to view, because [...]

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Google, the New America Foundation, and the PlanetLab Consortium have put together a new toolkit to help you keep an eye on your ISP. Until and unless the federal government requires ISPs to conform to Network Neutrality, it is up to consumers to keep their ISPs honest. Tools like this are invaluable as a method [...]

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It looks like Comcast and AT&T are the first ISPs to fall to the coercive RIAA. The RIAA has finally realized that suing thousands of their customers is bad for business, and has decided to change their tactics. They now want to pay ISPs to be the cops of the internet, taking people offline who [...]

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The telcos would be laughed out of the room if they didn’t have so much lobbying power. They are deadly serious in fighting any regulation, and proponents of a fair and free Internet should redouble their efforts to enact net neutrality regulation before the situation becomes worse.

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Will a President Obama be good for Federal technology policy? Only time can tell, but his campaign’s use of technology gives me hope that he understands the opportunity that technology offers the country. As I have argued many times, an understanding of technology is missing from far too many legislators and regulators, so, hopefully, this [...]

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Recently, the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held hearings on current and planned ISP monitoring and shaping of their customer’s web traffic. These hearings got very little news coverage, save a few tech-oriented writers. These hearings were quite interesting, with many Congressmen from both parties expressing incredulity [...]

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